Dinosaur/Road Trip/Small Time Crooks/Shanghai Noon

Closer to Old-School Woody in spirit, but not execution

Smart and funny with a sense of style, pure Woody Allen. *** out of ****.

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Woody Allen and Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

Woody Allen, Demi Moore, Elisabeth Shue, Robin Williams, Kirstie Alley, Billy Crystal, Mariel Hemingway, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Richard Benjamin, Judy Davis, Amy Irving, Tobey Maguire, and Stanley Tucci in Deconstructing Harry (1997)

Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs in Anything Else (2003)

John Cusack, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri, and Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo DiCaprio, Winona Ryder, Charlize Theron, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Judy Davis, Joe Mantegna, and Bebe Neuwirth in Celebrity (1998)

Will Ferrell, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Radha Mitchell in Melinda and Melinda (2004)

Remember my nickname when we were in the joint?

The Brain. That's what the guys used to call me, right?

Woody Allen, Hugh Grant, and Tracey Ullman in Small Time Crooks (2000)

Woody Allen

Tracey Ullman

Hugh Grant

An inept crook and his wife strike it rich when their botched bank job&apos;s cookie-making cover business becomes a phenomenal success.

Small Time Crooks

An attractive Woody Allen film, joyfully absurd and witty.

Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) is a &quot;small-time criminal&quot; with big dreams; nevertheless, he&apos;s actually a dishwasher. Then, Ray , the blue-collar turned crook, decides to become rich by robbing a NYC bank. Problem is, he teams up with various bumblers to pull off the heist. As he recruits his manicurist wife (Tracey Ullman) and some clumsy coworkers (Michael Rappaport, Jon Lovitz, Tony Darrow) and quits his job as a dishwasher to open a cookie shop next to a bank. He sets up a business as a front to hide the crime that turns out to be more successful than the hold-up it was supposed to hide. And while his wife runs the cookie store, he and his co-workers work in the basement to break into the bank. Wealth comes from an unexpected direction and helps him fulfill his dreams. As a result of some mishaps, the couple accidentally gains fame and fortune only to find it doesn&apos;t suit them at all. Explodes with big-time laughter.! They took a bite out of crime!.

Allen writes, directs and stars in a funny comedy in which he returns to the mocking spirit of his beginnings, such as Bananas, The Sleeper and Take the Money and Run. In fact, Woody Allen places a large gumball machine in one of the opening scenes to create a link between his role, Winkler, and the bungling criminal Virgil Starkwell from his other film Take the Money and Run (1969). In this film, Small Time Crooks (2000), highly praised by critics, he plays an inept ex-convict who plans to become a multimillionaire thanks to the money he tries to steal from a bank, setting up a cookie store as a front, but the deal turns out better than the robbery. Co-starring Tracey Ulman, a renowned comedy actress with several awards. Ullman, as usual, is endearing and sympathetic. Woody Allen claims he chose Tracey Ullman because she is one of the few comedians who makes him laugh. Also notable are the lousy thieves played by Jon Lovitz, Michael Rappaport, Brian Markinson and a large cast that includes Hugh Grant as a smarmy art dealer and well-bred snob trying to make a profit while teaching the lower classes some couth and Elaine May, among others.

The soundtrack is filled with Allen&apos;s beloved jazz and big band tunes. Adding evocative and colorful cinematography by Chinese Fei Zhao, Yimou Zhang&apos;s regular cameraman. This comedy-thriller is full of silliness and ridiculous situations, being competently acted, written and directed by Woody Allen. Hauled by some as Allen&apos;s triumphant return to his stylings of old , this comedy &apos;Small Time Crooks&apos; actually just seems some slow and dated, but decent. In his beginnings Woody made generally hilarious films in which he often acted, such as: &quot;What&apos;s Up, Tiger Lily?&quot;, &quot;Take the money and run&quot;, &quot;Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You&quot;, &quot;Sleeper&quot;, &quot;Everything You always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask¨, among others. Later he created several masterpieces, including a series of films in which he provided good direction, putting enough care, wit and warmth such as : ¨Crimes and misdemeanors¨, ¨New York stories¨, ¨September¨, ¨Radio Days¨, ¨Hanna and her sisters¨, ¨Broadway Danny Rose¨, ¨Zelig¨, ¨Stardust memories¨, ¨A midsummer Night&apos;s Sex Comedy¨, ¨Interiors¨, ¨Purple rose of Cairo¨, ¨Manhattan¨, ¨Annie Hall¨, ¨Melinda Melinda¨ and many others . Rating: 6.5/10. Better than average. The film will appeal to fans of Woody Allen&apos;s films. Well worth seeing.

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Ray Winkler (Woody Allen) is a "small-time criminal" with big dreams; nevertheless, he's actually a dishwasher. Then, Ray , the blue-collar turned crook, decides to become rich by robbing a NYC bank. Problem is, he teams up with various bumblers to pull off the heist. As he recruits his manicurist wife (Tracey Ullman) and some clumsy coworkers (Michael Rappaport, Jon Lovitz, Tony Darrow) and quits his job as a dishwasher to open a cookie shop next to a bank. He sets up a business as a front to hide the crime that turns out to be more successful than the hold-up it was supposed to hide. And while his wife runs the cookie store, he and his co-workers work in the basement to break into the bank. Wealth comes from an unexpected direction and helps him fulfill his dreams. As a result of some mishaps, the couple accidentally gains fame and fortune only to find it doesn't suit them at all. Explodes with big-time laughter.! They took a bite out of crime!.

Allen writes, directs and stars in a funny comedy in which he returns to the mocking spirit of his beginnings, such as Bananas, The Sleeper and Take the Money and Run. In fact, Woody Allen places a large gumball machine in one of the opening scenes to create a link between his role, Winkler, and the bungling criminal Virgil Starkwell from his other film Take the Money and Run (1969). In this film, Small Time Crooks (2000), highly praised by critics, he plays an inept ex-convict who plans to become a multimillionaire thanks to the money he tries to steal from a bank, setting up a cookie store as a front, but the deal turns out better than the robbery. Co-starring Tracey Ulman, a renowned comedy actress with several awards. Ullman, as usual, is endearing and sympathetic. Woody Allen claims he chose Tracey Ullman because she is one of the few comedians who makes him laugh. Also notable are the lousy thieves played by Jon Lovitz, Michael Rappaport, Brian Markinson and a large cast that includes Hugh Grant as a smarmy art dealer and well-bred snob trying to make a profit while teaching the lower classes some couth and Elaine May, among others.

The soundtrack is filled with Allen's beloved jazz and big band tunes. Adding evocative and colorful cinematography by Chinese Fei Zhao, Yimou Zhang's regular cameraman. This comedy-thriller is full of silliness and ridiculous situations, being competently acted, written and directed by Woody Allen. Hauled by some as Allen's triumphant return to his stylings of old , this comedy 'Small Time Crooks' actually just seems some slow and dated, but decent. In his beginnings Woody made generally hilarious films in which he often acted, such as: "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", "Take the money and run", "Pussycat, Pussycat I Love You", "Sleeper", "Everything You always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask¨, among others. Later he created several masterpieces, including a series of films in which he provided good direction, putting enough care, wit and warmth such as : ¨Crimes and misdemeanors¨, ¨New York stories¨, ¨September¨, ¨Radio Days¨, ¨Hanna and her sisters¨, ¨Broadway Danny Rose¨, ¨Zelig¨, ¨Stardust memories¨, ¨A midsummer Night's Sex Comedy¨, ¨Interiors¨, ¨Purple rose of Cairo¨, ¨Manhattan¨, ¨Annie Hall¨, ¨Melinda Melinda¨ and many others . Rating: 6.5/10. Better than average. The film will appeal to fans of Woody Allen's films. Well worth seeing.

An inept crook and his wife strike it rich when their botched bank job's cookie-making cover business becomes a phenomenal success.

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